Notes on AI teams, repeated office work, and practical business help.
August 12, 2026
A practical upgrade to a Shopify and Instagram creator workflow: review changes before they reach Google Sheets, paginate every API request, and use TikTok Shop exports when direct API access is not an option.
July 28, 2026
How can you automate order syncing, delivery checks, creator deliverable tracking, and reminder emails without replacing your existing spreadsheet? Using Shopify, Instagram, and Google Sheets, this post breaks down a workflow you can build yourself.
July 24, 2026
To solve a single test problem, OpenAI's AI escaped its isolated environment and hacked into Hugging Face. The scariest part is not that it went rogue, but that it was diligently completing its task the entire time.
July 17, 2026
Creator campaigns span storefronts, social platforms, sample shipments, posts, and attribution. Sellers keep the truth in a spreadsheet—the real opportunity is automating the work around it.
July 6, 2026
AI agents are powerful because they can improvise, but that same freedom makes them risky. Aqua Blue uses AI to design workflows, then lets software run them deterministically.
June 29, 2026
Fashion and apparel product photos often need to be cropped by hand before they fit store listings. Aqua Blue lets you describe the cropping rule in plain language and automate that image workflow.
June 23, 2026
If your team spends every month exporting data, cleaning spreadsheets, checking budget variances, and updating the same Excel report, you can teach the workflow to an AI employee once and generate the report from monthly files.
June 14, 2026
Not every task can be planned perfectly in advance. Aqua Blue AI employees can pause when something unexpected comes up, collect your input in a clear form, and then continue working.
June 4, 2026
At my first hackathon, our team demoed an AI team concept for small businesses.